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Writing Workshop
Maps
Continents
Mesopotamia
Everything Else
100
4 descriptive words are...
What are tall, short, curvy, parallel, perpendicular, round, flat.
100
Cardinal points of direction.
What are North, South, East, and West.
100
This is the only continent where there are no countries and its freezing cold!
What is Antarctica?
100
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means "the land _______"
What is "of two rivers?"
100
The second largest continent of the world.
What is Africa?
200
When you make a __________ you choose a topic and pull other topics out of it. Then, you pull out more topics out of those topics.
What is a cluster?
200
Inter-cardinal points of direction.
What are northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest?
200
We live on this continent?
What is North America?
200
The people who lived in the land between the two rivers are knows as...
Who are the Sumerians?
200
It has rows and columns; and, it is used to organize information.
What is a table?
300
This is the kind of writing through which you teach or inform the reader about something.
What is informational text/writing?
300
This tool shows us a list of symbols used on a map and what they mean.
What is a legend?
300
Mesopotamia was a region located in this continents.
What is Asia?
300
Two other groups of people that wandered around and settled in Mesopotamia are (not the Sumerians)
Who are the Babylonians and the Assyrians?
300
The stage of writing before you begin writing your full draft. In this stage you brainstorm the topics and subtopics.
What is Pre-Writing?
400
It’s a kind of personal narrative that describes an important event or a important relationship with someone.
What is a Memoir?
400
This tool on the map shows us the cardinal and inter-cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
400
This continent is where the ancient Greeks and Romans lived.
What is Europe?
400
The two ancient rivers of Mesopotamia are called...
What are the rivers of Euphrates and Tigris?
400
The stage of writing when you first write your full piece/story is called...
What is a draft/first draft?
500
This is the final stage of the writing process.
What is publishing?
500
A field or a subject in which you study maps and the physical features of the earth.
What is Geography?
500
The 7 continents of the world are...
What Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, North America, South America, Europe.
500
Mesopotamia is also known as the _______________
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
This is the largest continent of the world.
What is Asia.